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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: risky purchase the fairlight?... Floppy Drives replacement

2010-07-24 by Peter K.

Of course the link was wrong, it should be: http://www.torlus.com/floppy/index.php?News
I already send an earlier mail to correct this, but it seems to got lost in space..........
Sorry if I confused anyone
Regards,
Peter Kersten.

From: Peter K.
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: risky purchase the fairlight?... Floppy Drives replacement

Actually this project is already going on for quite some time now. It has already been tested with a CMI, seems to work for reading, but not yet for writing.
Sadly the progress is very very slow...........
Regards,
Peter Kersten.

Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 9:43 AM
Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: risky purchase the fairlight?... Floppy Drives replacement

There maybe some more hope:

http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator

and an Oberheim DPX-1 5 1/4" drive replaced with SD (this is for EII samples)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G9UBxyhbOU

Cheers

Chris

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